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View definitions for unravel

unravel

verb as in solve

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verb as in untangle

verb as in unfold

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Santos’s legal troubles stemmed from a string of falsehoods and financial misdeeds that unraveled soon after his 2022 election to Congress.

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The appointment of Edu can be viewed as the start of the problems, purely from the viewpoint of what happened with Nuno and how the season has unravelled since.

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Their relationship unraveled after an innocuous inquiry three years ago.

Those things don’t just come unraveled in one moment.

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Deftly unraveling the tangled politics of the moment, Mr. Wallace vividly shows La Guardia juggling factions of fusionist Republicans, communists, interventionists, isolationists, Tammany pols and a rat’s nest of the city’s fierce ethnic rivalries.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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